syntax_X Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Common practice is to get any title that's starts with The and put it at the end of the title name like ",The" With French titles Launchbox wants "Le" at the start of the title name which is completely wrong by any naming standard. Id much rather be able to put all my roms through clrmamepro and some reliable dats and have Launchbox find them instead of having to chase my tail with some sloppy unknown naming method... Up vote this if you feel the need I made a ticket..https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/3132/launchbox-scrapes-european-titles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I don't know if I'd go as far as to say it's common practice so much as Launchbox simply adheres to the notion that you can have them named "[something], the" and it'll work just fine. If you don't, and have "The [something]" Launchbox will still treat it the same, by default, in terms of alphabetical organization in your library and for scraping purposes. If you use CCS64 via Launchbox, you actually can't use roms that have commas in the file name (due to some kind of internal weirdness with LB and how it communicates with CCS64, not because of CCS64 itself) so for those "[something], the" isn't an option. They scrape properly either way though. I do agree that foreign language titles should be treated the same way though. If "[something], The" and "The [something]" both get recognized properly, "[something], Le" and "Le [something]" should too. For reference purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Variation_among_languages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 It should probably also be noted that, even if this is implemented (and I don't think that'd be difficult to do), the likely bigger issue would be with the titles being in the DB in the first place. You can have the freedom to correctly scrape "Caca, Le" and "Scheiße, Die" all day long and it won't help if they're not in the DB in the first place 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntax_X Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) I'm just finding that more often than not my no-intro named roms are not being found in the database till I alter their names. The comma for me wasn't the main point just the fact that no-intro dats are pretty much the only way to bulk check/rename roms to correct names and if Launchbox can't pickup those names then what's the use?? I literally have 100s of titles like this most of which are Japan releases. European titles doing this was the only easy pattern I could find. Others involve misuse of : or - but I need to checks my roms against fresh dats tonight to confirm. Edited June 20, 2017 by syntax_X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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